Credit-accounting appliance.



H. E. MASSEY. CREDIT ACCOUNTING APPLIANCE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1912.

Patented 0011.7,1913.

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HOIER E. MASSEY, 0! SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI.

CREDIT-ACCOUNTING APPLIANCE;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Get. 7, 1913.

Application filed November 25, 19 12. Serialito. 733,484.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, HOMER E. M AssnY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Green and have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Credit- Accounting Appliances, of which the following is aspecification:

This invention relates to credit account appliances in which duplicates of sales slips are systematically entries of the accounts, the invention having particular reference to the leaves to which clips are attached for holding the slips or bills.

The objects of the invention are to provide bill-holding leaves of improved construction wherein a plurality of clips will be supported on each side of the leaf, and wherein each clip and its sales slips will be set 0% from every other by projecting strips.

'A further object is to provide horizontal sliding strips with flat outer faces Which form contacting surfaces for the free movement of the leaves upon each other in opening and closing the book-file in which the leaves are bound, a further object being to provide suitable ones of said horizontal slid ing strips so constructed as to support the clips, and to so construct the said sliding strips that they will prevent entanglement of adjacent leaves, and the clips of adjacent leaves with each other.

An additional object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and durable construction for the purpose intended.

T accomplish the objects of the invention by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which-- Figure l is a top plan view of a file-book comprising a'plurality of leaves embodying my invention, the leaves being turned to open position at about the middle of the book. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the leaves detached from the filing'book. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 5. Fig. 4 is an elevation of one of the hori- 'zontal sliding strips of a leaf. Fig. 5 is a view in side elevation of one of the leaves removed from the filing book, and showing six sales slip holding spaces with a holdin clip in position in one of the spaces, and Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views of the drawing.

filed without making book opening The several leaves of a filing book may bebound together by any of the usual and suitable means, here shown as a frame comprising horizontal bars 7 in pairs, separated a distance apart equal to the lengths of the leaves to permit the latter to be introduced between them, and secured by vertical bolts 8. The bars 7 have sockets in their inner faces to receive the ends of hinge-rods 9. The bodies 10 of the leaves will preferably be formed out of sheet metal with their inner vertical edges turned into a cylindrical roll to receive the hinge-rods 9 with a close moving fit, the rods 9 being preferably round in cross section. The opposite outer I edge of the leaf will preferably be reinforced and finished by bending a narrow portion 11 of it over flat against the body of the leaf.

Secured to the body 10 at or near the upper and lower horizontal edges of the leaf, and also between the horizontal tiers of billholding clips 12 are the horizontal division strips 13. These are preferably formed out of sheet. metal and are hollow, the hollow interior being for the reception of the hookends 14, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5, of

the clips 12, and those rubbing strips 13.

which are underneath the bill-holding spaces are provided with suitable perforations 16 in their upper faces only, for the introduction therethrough of the hooked-ends 14 of the clips. The clips 12 are formed out of spring tempered wire, of any usual and suitable shape, such as that shown in the drawings. The clips press normally against the leaf 10 and retain the account slips or bills introduced between said clips and the leaf 10.

The projection of the rubbing strips 13 beyond the body 10 of the leaf is greater adjacent the outer edge of the leaf than at the opposite edge, and it. is made uniformly tapering, as shown in Fig. 3. This is to facilitate the separation of the pages in up an account file or book, as the inner portions of the leaves approach closer to each other than do the outer leaf portions when the book is opened, and to avoid interference with each other and consequent entanglements and interlocking I prefer to round the ends ofthe rubbing strips, as shown at 1'2.

The rubbing strips 13, at the top and bottom horizontal edges of the leaves, are preferably made in pairs out of a single piece of metal, each-pair comprising stri s which are on' opposite si esof the lea and are connected by integral portions of the metal bent to form a binder 18i-which closely embraces the end of the leaf 10. 'The rubbing stri s may be secured by rivets, as shown, or t ey may be soldered or braied or welded to the leaf.

The rubbing strips of the several leaves are placed in orizontal series opposite. each other, whereby they will contact andform slides which hold the leaves a art and facilitate opening and closing t e file book without entanglement of the account slips carried b them.

A furt er separation of the account slips held by theLseveral clips 12 is secured by means of vertical division strips 20. These are also preferably formed hollow out of sheet metal, and their projection being less than that of the horizontal strips 13, they will be preferably secured by passing them,

through channels formed for the pur ose transversely of the intermediate rub ing strips, andby introducing the ends of the division strips 20 into the top and bottom rubbing strlps through suitable openings for the purpose formed through the inner walls of said top and bottom running strips. This is readily done in assembling the parts of the complete leaf.

' While I have described my invention with more or less minuteness as regards details of construction and arrangement and as being embodied'in certain precise forms I do not desire to be limited thereto unduly or any more than is pointed out in the claims. On the contrary, I contemplate all proper changes in form, construction and arrangement, the omission of immaterial elements and thesubstitution of equivalents as circumstances may suggest or necessity render expedient.

I claim: 1 1

1. A bill-holding leaf for a credit accounting appliance having hollow perforated strips at right angles to the upright hinged edge of the leaf and wire clips having hooked ends inserted into the hollow strips through the perforations of said strips.

rubbing leaf, the strips a 7 2. bill lioldiugleaf for credit accounti ing appliances having taperinhollow longitudinally strips at right angles to the upright-hmgedLedge of the leaf, the tapering strilps having their smallest projectionsat sai hinged edge of the leaf.

3. The combination of a bill-holding leaf, hollowstri s secure to the leaf at right-- .angles to t e upright hinged edge of the leaf, the to walls of all but thehighes'tofsaid stri s eing'perforated, andwlre clips having ooked ends, said ends being in; serted through said perforations intdthe strips.

hollow str'i s secured to the leaf at'f-right angles to t e uprighthinged edge of -the' of saidstrilps being perforated, wire'clis having hoo Ttrips parallel with the hinged edge of the eaf.

5. Thecombination, of a bill-holding leaf, hollow strips secured to the leaf at. right angles to t leaf, thetop walls of allbut the uppermost of said strips being perforated, wire cli 9 having hooked ends inserted throu h said perforations into the strips, and

ivision 1 ed ends inserted through saw perforations into the strips, and division e upright hinged edgeof the strips havin' ends entering the top and bottom ones 0 said first strips and passing" through the intermediate strips.

6; The combination, of a bill-holdinglea1',- hollow stri s secured to the leaf at right angles to t e upright hinged edge -'of the jacent the upperand lower edges of the leaf, on both, sides of the leaf having the opposite. strips on the two sides formed out of a single piece of sheet metal which is also bent? around the adjacent edge of the leaf.

In witness whereof, I, have'hereunto set in hand and seal at Indianapolis, Indiana,

this, 22d day of October, A. D. one-thousand nine hundred and, twelve.

Witnesses:

F. W. Wonmvnn, L. B. WOERNER.

HOMER E. MASSEY. [as] I 

